England Quotes - Page 14

• I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
  After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dust, Land

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• I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Listening, Culture, Records

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• Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Art, Dark, Japan

  Stephen K. Hayes (2011). “The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

  Fascination, Doe, Paper

  "Bowing Down To Paul Bettany". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2009.

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• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  Archie Panjabi

  Brother, Boys, Blue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

  John Oliver

  Politician

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• Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with Jason Zabel, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Weather, California, Style

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• England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.

  John Garfield

  Sexy, Mean, Intelligent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

  Cliff Richard

  People, Church, Groups

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• Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

  Chris Barber

  Pace, Jazz, More Time

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• If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

  Suresh Raina

  Successful, Dubai, Shopping

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• Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, Appreciate, World

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• Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

  D. W Brogan

  Atheist, Atheism, Village

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Latin, Writing, Editing

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christian, Character, Practice

  "The Works of Benjamin Franklin".

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• The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

  Gore Vidal

  Mother, Country, America

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• A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  England And America, Law, Giving

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.235, Bantam Classics

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• The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Judging, Trials

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• The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Reality, Men, Law

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• I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

  Catherine Bell

  Husband, Museums, Mountain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is wrong with Tom Brady. When you look at the New England Patriots, they are going to have to readjust how they evaluate talent…You have to bring in some heavy hitters to protect Tom Brady at 37 years old and help him get the ball out of his hands.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Hands, Years, Balls

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• The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can’t wait to see how they match up against New England.

  Sterling Sharpe

  Football, Team, League

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• A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

  Tim Roth

  Change, Nice, Thinking

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• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  Wavy Gravy

  Whales, Example, Television

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